An old attribution to Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) appears on the reserve of the sheet. In a note on the modern museum matte, Keith Andrews suggested Battista Franco?, to which comment Catherine Monbeig Goguel has added copie. In spite of this difference of opinion over the drawing´s quality, it seemed more logical to place the drawing under Franco´s name, rather than of Agostino Carracci, with whose work it seems to have little in common.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.301